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title: Kanzi the bonobo learned hundreds of picture symbols by watching his… — Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bo… · tree and pragmatics
description: Kanzi the bonobo learned hundreds of picture symbols by watching his mother's lessons, understood many spoken English sentences and learned to make sharp stone flakes. Who acts: Kanzi. A sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology c
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# Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory, sentence 11

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Kanzi the bonobo learned hundreds of picture symbols by watching his mother's lessons, understood many spoken English sentences and learned to make sharp stone flakes.

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**Who acts:** Kanzi · **What happens:** learn, watch, understand, speak, make · **To what, where:** hundreds, lessons, many spoken English sentences, sharp stone flakes · **Speech:** someone speaks here

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This is a sentence of the lesson «Clever primates: tool-using chimps, Kanzi the bonobo and Ayumu's memory» of the biology course of Mova's primary school. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kanzi), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = school:biology:387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson:11
# text = Kanzi the bonobo learned hundreds of picture symbols by watching his mother's lessons, understood many spoken English sentences and learned to make sharp stone flakes.
# source = school lesson (ours)
# course = biology
# lesson = 387-clever-primates-tool-using-chimps-kanzi-the-bonobo-and-ayumu-s-memory.lesson
# annotation = Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change
1	Kanzi	Kanzi	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	4	nsubj	_	_
2	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	3	det	_	_
3	bonobo	bonobo	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	1	appos	_	_
4	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
5	hundreds	hundred	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
6	of	of	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
7	picture	picture	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	8	compound	_	_
8	symbols	symbol	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	5	nmod	_	_
9	by	by	SCONJ	IN	_	10	mark	_	_
10	watching	watch	VERB	VBG	Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Part	4	advcl	_	_
11	his	his	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	12	nmod:poss	_	_
12	mother	mother	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	nmod:poss	_	_
13	's	's	PART	POS	_	12	case	_	_
14	lessons	lesson	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	10	obj	_	_
15	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
16	understood	understand	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
17	many	many	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
18	spoken	speak	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass	20	amod	_	_
19	English	English	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	20	amod	_	_
20	sentences	sentence	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	16	obj	_	_
21	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	22	cc	_	_
22	learned	learn	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	4	conj	_	_
23	to	to	PART	TO	_	24	mark	_	_
24	make	make	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	22	xcomp	_	_
25	sharp	sharp	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
26	stone	stone	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	compound	_	_
27	flakes	flake	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	24	obj	_	_
28	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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No stored speech act for this sentence.

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **learn** | past | Kanzi | hundreds of picture symbols |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hundred=Topic |
| 2 | **watch** | gerund | Kanzi *not said here* | Kanzi's mother's lessons |  |  |  |  | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lesson=Theme |
| 3 | **understand** | past | Kanzi *not said here* | many spoken English sentences |  |  |  |  | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer sentence=Stimulus |
| 4 | **speak** *speech: other* | participle |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
| 5 | **learn** | past | Kanzi *not said here* |  |  |  |  |  | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic |
| 6 | **make** | to-infinitive | Kanzi *not said here* | sharp stone flakes |  |  |  |  | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset flake=Product |

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One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.

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**The tree:** Mova annot: Rust (en) → Haiku 5.5 (medium, Batches API) patches; gates UD 2.18; agreed by treeagree rules (Stanza, Trankit, spaCy trf): no change. **The frames** are read from the tree by Mova's frames reader (`prag`) when this page is built, the lesson read in order, so a pronoun may be resolved from an earlier sentence.

See the [release 0.4](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/releases/0.4/).

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